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BULB COMPARISON.
- Thread starter rolf.b
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I had an HID dipped bulb (not sure how good a version it was, build was good but didn't seem as bright as I'd hoped).
I decided to take the plunge and go LED for dipped and main and have not regretted it. I have 3000lm leds with inbuilt fans, they are bulky and tricky to fit as I had to do a fair few mods to get them to fit, but they are fantastic on the road. The ability to have a powerful main beam that you can flash with is perfect.
I believe there are slimmer bodied versions now with some doing fitting kits for the Bird too.
I decided to take the plunge and go LED for dipped and main and have not regretted it. I have 3000lm leds with inbuilt fans, they are bulky and tricky to fit as I had to do a fair few mods to get them to fit, but they are fantastic on the road. The ability to have a powerful main beam that you can flash with is perfect.
I believe there are slimmer bodied versions now with some doing fitting kits for the Bird too.
I had to make spacers to get both the correct insertion depth to give a sharp beam cutoff, and to make/modify the spring retaining clips. The main issue was the diameter of the heat sink/fan section that just touches the back of the headlight where it's inserted into the lense, it appears it needs to be inserted a long way in the Bird.